# Displaying Hover Captions

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-hover-captions/1631>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 6, 2002, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-hover-captions/1631 "2002-05-06T22:36:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-hover-captions/1631/1 "2002-05-06T22:36:42Z")

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In your “Displaying Hover Captions” tutorial, it explains how to do it in Flash MX.  
I just skimmed through it, but…  
can this not be done if Flash 5?  
and if not, why not?

Thanks!

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**Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 10:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-hover-captions/1631/2 "2002-05-07T22:29:08Z")

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Because…

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**Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 12:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-hover-captions/1631/3 "2002-05-14T00:21:08Z")

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Same with Flash 5 (I just did it). A few things maybe, but minor.

pom 0]

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**Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 12:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-hover-captions/1631/4 "2002-05-14T00:29:05Z")

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POM YOU"RE BACK!! THE WORLD REJOICES!! Well, not really…but welcome back anyway

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**Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-hover-captions/1631/5 "2002-05-14T21:07:55Z")

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Welcome back Pom! 🙂 I’ll have your tutorials (that you sent a decade ago) up in a few days!

This (hover captions) can very easily be done in Flash 5 as well. Because Flash MX is the “wave of the future” I’m not all that concerned about writing Flash 5 tutorials.

Cheers!  
Kirupa

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**Post date:** [May 17, 2002, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-hover-captions/1631/6 "2002-05-17T20:13:44Z")

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thanks guys 😃  
By the way, I’m using hover captions in this -not a site, really- animation I’m doing. I’ll let you see it when it’s done.

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**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 11:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-hover-captions/1631/7 "2002-05-18T11:01:27Z")

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can’t wait to see it 🙂